11/10/2012

Poblano and Sausage Chili

There's nothing better than a pot of chili on a Friday night especially when the temperatures are cooler and there's rain coming down.

Now we've enjoyed a lot of different chili's on this site and one of the many things I've learned during our 10 years is Tucson is there's a huge difference between a Mexican style chile and a chili like this one. In case you want to know the authentic Tex/Mex version, at least the one I make, doesn't have a touch of tomato in it, uses cubed beef instead of ground and there's not a bean in sight either. Not so with last night's pot of glorious stew.

A Cooking Light Recipe via myrecipes.com, this one starts with the usual sauteed onion and garlic, and makes use of sweet Italian sausage for something a little different. A couple of poblano peppers instead of the usual sweet green bell pepper variety and the pot's completed with canned diced tomatoes as well as a couple of poblano peppers and a can each of red kidney beans (the recipe called for black) and pinto's too. I added a little more tomato flavor in the guise of tomato paste because I thought the pot needed a little extra richness and I nixed the cilantro because mine was looking a little tired.

Lorraine - it was such a suitable meal for a cooler evening. It's even cooler today and we had more well needed rain last night. It's cool enough that (feral cat) Georgie was looking for cuddles during coffee hour this morning. She started asking at 3 this morning...she's OK as long as she can see the open door. LOL

Lea - it is lovely, just lovely. Max had us up at 1:50 AM with seizures and it was raining beautifully then. He managed to go 28 weeks...over half a year so we're thankful for that. He had 3 of them and we were all back in bed by the time Georgie was "knocking" at the screen door. LOL